''Prophilopota'' is an

extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. It is known from

Baltic amber The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber or succinite. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that these forests created more than 1 ...

from the

Eocene The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene' ...

Species

The genus contains two species: * †''

Prophilopota succinea ''Prophilopota'' is an extinct genus of small-headed flies in the family Acroceridae. It is known from Baltic amber from the Eocene. Species The genus contains two species: * †'' Prophilopota succinea'' Hennig, 1966 – unknown locality (poss ...

'' Hennig, 1966 – unknown locality (possibly

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) * †'' Prophilopota variegata'' Gillung & Winterton, 2017 –

Kaliningrad Oblast Kaliningrad Oblast (russian: Калинингра́дская о́бласть, translit=Kaliningradskaya oblast') is the westernmost federal subject of Russia. It is a semi-exclave situated on the Baltic Sea. The largest city and administr ...

, Russia

References

Acroceridae

† A dagger, obelisk, or obelus is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species). It is one of the modern descendan ...

Prehistoric Diptera genera Taxa named by Willi Hennig Baltic amber Eocene insects {{Nemestrinoidea-stub